DADDY LONGLEGS. 
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selves, and thorough disturbance of their shelters would be almost 
certainly fatal. 
Similarly destroying headlands and breadths of wild grass would 
do good. 
Daddy Longlegs. Tipula oleracea, Linn, (and other species). 
Tipula olebacea. 
1, larva ; 2, pupa-case standing in tire ground; 3, Fly ; 4, eggs. 
Amongst the many bad crop attacks of the past season perhaps 
that of the Daddy Longlegs grubs was the most widely spread and the 
most lasting. 
Early in the year enquiry began as to the nature of the grubs, 
which were then working at the crop roots, and these continued more 
or less until with autumn a vast appearance of the Flies gave reason 
to expect another attack of their grubs next spring. 
The attack was reported from many places, and from as far north 
as Caithness in Scotland down to Brighton. It was injurious to Grass 
pastures, Oats, and Wheat; to Beans, Peas, and Turnips; likewise to 
Strawberries, and to lawns in public gardens or squares in London 
and Brighton. 
More than one kind of Tipula was at work. The smaller, a 
yellower kind known as the Spotted Daddy Longlegs, which is some¬ 
times considered as still more injurious than the common kind, was 
noticed by Mr. Fitch ; and the kinds of grubs which were destructive 
in London may very probably have included those of the Tipula 
quadrifaria , which is stated by Curtis to be especially abundant in 
London gardens. 
